Yeah, because corporations shouldn't have to pay taxes. After all, they don't use any public infrastructure, they don't benefit from the rule of law, and the very structure of a corporation is not a privileged risk-firewall that protects owners from the consequences of management's decisions carried out in their interest.

Corporations would be more than willing to partner with government, if government had a clue about anything. This is what creates the rift. Plain and simple corporations think government employees are very very very stupid.

Sure, you can have "low" taxation, just like Singapore -- as long as you're willing to serve a dictator.

Here's a newsflash: the public in those "socialist" countries are the most content, the healthiest, and the most productive in the world. That's right, even more productive than their state-of-nature (read: "free", as in "free" to starve) crony-capitalist counterparts.

I guess there are two ways to solve the problem of tax inversion mergers. The U.S. could drop corporate tax rates and remove the incentive to migrate to Ireland or the EU could declare that Ireland is illegally subsidizing businesses with an extraordinarily low tax rate.

"Tax" always falls on the individual, in the end. Unless that Individual can mooch subsidies/benefits that are greater than his/her total taxation under a lifetime ( which many succeed in doing ) large government is negative. Amzn is far from the only company registering in "low" tax Countries, but we do have separate Countries on this Planet, not everything is ruled by gobal control. Further, Amzn is already paying a lot of taxes, in every country it's operating in, and drives revenue +sales, for all neighboring economies + benefits consumers ( at the cost of local business with too high margin and/or cost ) Now. Why the **** would Amzn submit to a global tax ? while it's simultaneously being blocked from operating in half the World, and lobbied against locally everywhere. The Lords and Kings in ( the imminent fiasko ) "EU" who want to control Amzn, have nothing to offer in return. No even play field, anywhere. That's right, they can not offer a "rule of law", as they can merely threaten to sue, according to their own views, and that, my "friends", is the essence of Communism, of which every EU citizen is a proud bearer.. Still being prone to Madness and World Wars, this is not Sparta. It's the arbitrary chaos of Europe, and an organisation that says it's formed to protect against conflict and global Wars, have started so many rebellions from within, but you never hear it from "the center". The bullshit will evaporate, and it will fail. Germany didn't go to war, to "take over the World", they went to war to fight against, and get rid of ( once and for all ) this very behavior of Countries/organisations trying to control other Countries, that are none of their businees

The EU is not trying to control AMZN, they're trying to control the countries within the EU. They're trying to minimize what their members do in their tax code that results in companies creating artificial companies to avoid taxes.

You've created your own fantasy of the definition of communism. Try a dictionary and then move "up" to wiki.

If you wish to insist on using your view of the essence of communism, then all we live in is a communist world. In which case there's no point in talking about communism any longer.